David J. Bobb: Howard Zinn and the Art of Anti-Americanism

Hollywood and the academic left have made the late Marxist historian more influential than ever.

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David J. Bobb

Aug. 12, 2013 6:54 p.m. ET

Upon the death of the Marxist-inspired historian Howard Zinn in 2010, eulogies rang out from coast to coast calling him a heroic champion of the unsung masses. In Indiana, then-Gov. Mitch Daniels refused to join the chorus and instead sent emails to his staff wondering if the historian's "execrable" books were being force-fed to Hoosier students. The recent revelation of these emails provoked an angry backlash.

High-school teachers within Zinn's vast network of admirers blogged their disapproval of the...